Archive › February, 2009

How To Use A Windows ScanSnap On A Mac – Link Roundup

by Brooks on 25. Feb, 2009 in ScanSnap, Software

Update: It’s confirmed that the ScanSnap S1500 and S1500M include both drivers on the install CD. See this ScanSnap Cross-Platform post for more info.  The rest of this post relates to the S510 and s300 series. According to commenter “rei” on this ScanSnap S1500 post, the next version of the Fujitsu ScanSnap is going to [...]

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Men In Black Director Uses ScanSnap to Crush Screenwriters

by Brooks on 23. Feb, 2009 in ScanSnap, Scanners

The whole scanner-replacing-fax idea is certainly nothing new, but I enjoyed this article in Esquire by Barry Sonnenfeld, who is a TV producer and the director of Men In Black. Instead of relying on faxes, he can now “efficiently harass writers from anywhere, at any time”: My method of working is to scribble thoughts on [...]

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Macworld Gets NeatWorks and the ScanSnap to Behave

by Brooks on 19. Feb, 2009 in ScanSnap, Scanners, Software

Many people have heard of the portable document scanner called NeatReceipts. NeatReceipts comes with a piece of scanning software called NeatWorks. What happens if you want to use the NeatWorks software but don’t need the scanner part? Will NeatWorks play nicely with the Fujitsu ScanSnap? If you have the newest version of NeatWorks, it will. [...]

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Shoeboxed and TaxACT Trying To Make Taxes Easier

by Brooks on 02. Feb, 2009 in Software

As we all know, but probably don’t want to admit, it’s getting to be tax time. A while I got an email letting me know that Shoeboxed, who I have written about before, and TaxACT, an online tax filing service, have created a partnership to “make filing taxes and organizing receipts easier”. Since making things [...]

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